In the market for a new GPS Hema Navigator just released a cross over
Submitted: Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 07:33
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time waster
It seems to run OziExplorer route66 and raster maps has anyone tried one out yet it seems to be a good unit do do both the city and bush tracks with all the mapping included apart from the horrid blue surround it looks good .
The supplier in
Adelaide said he will get them in next week at $990
Reply By: traveller2 - Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 08:33
Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 08:33
You can buy a very similar unit from ebay (from an Aussie seller) for just over $200 minus the maps which retail for about the same, so the whole setup would be half the cost. Plus the ebay units have bluetooth capability, external antenna connection, reverse camera connection and use a freely available Nokia battery.
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Follow Up By: time waster - Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 08:46
Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 08:46
Thanks for that.
What would be the unit off ebay that I should look for?
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Follow Up By: Peter McG (Member, Melbourne) - Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:49
Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:49
This is the one I got a couple of week ago:
Ebay GPS
It works fine. If you need more info on how to set up check out the Patrol
forum:
Patrol Forum GPS thread
Cheers
Peter
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Follow Up By: traveller2 - Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 14:50
Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 14:50
This is the one I bought for $233
ebay auction 290237726921
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Reply By: Member -Signman - Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:13
Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:13
I reckon for nearly a $grand ??
there are many better cost effective solutions !!
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Reply By: Bushtrek - Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:34
Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:34
Looking at the product data, it's just another in the long line of gps solutions.
Nothing jumps out at you to say this is a better product and at the reported price it would have to have something better than the competition.
The WQVGA screen is the same as most others so nothing special there.
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Reply By: Mikee5 (Logan QLD) - Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:00
Friday, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:00
Have a look at posts 58477 and 58422. The Hema Navigator is apparently a MIO 520 in disguise. There are links on these posts giving instructions as to how to 'crack' this GPS to give it the same functionality as the Hema for a third of the price.
Mike.
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